Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
The Interviewer
iv
Jacob H. Douma: Biographical Sketch and Career Information
vii
Childhood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
University of California at Berkeley
4
Waterways Experiment Station
12
Bureau of Reclamation
20
Los Angeles Engineer District
32
Wolf Creek Dam, Nashville District
32
Hydraulic Engineer
34
Flood Control Dams and Channels
34
Los Angeles District during World War II
37
Los Angeles District Personnel
40
Involvement in Professional Engineering Organizations
43
Tujunga Wash Flood Channel
44
Visit of Lt. Gen. Wheeler and Gail Hathaway
46
Structural Branch, Engineering Division, Civil Works, Office of the Chief of Engineers 47
Pine Flat, Fort Randall, Garrison, and Oahe Dams
Ohio River Locks and Dams
54
Dams on the Columbia and Snake Rivers
56
Improvements in Modeling
Design Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Engineering Division, Civil Works, OCE
62
Hydraulics and Hydrology Branch, OCE
64
Coastal Engineering
66
Committees on Tidal Hydraulics and Channel Stabilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Committee on Streambank Erosion
73
Retirement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Consulting Work
76
Dam, Pakistan
76
Reza Shah
Dam, Iran
78
Dam, East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD)
81
Rafferty Dam, Canada
83
Susitna Dam, Alaska
87
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National Academy of Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Environment and Engineering in the 1970's
91
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